Works of Love in a World of Violence ─ Feminism, Kierkegaard, and the Limits of Self-Sacrifice

Society as a whole, as well as religious institutions and other organizations individually, rely heavily on women's self-sacrifice in order to maintain a status quo of suffering and violence, says Green, and asks how the operative understanding of love can be reinterpreted and redeemed so that it gives life instead. Engaging with the continental philosophical tradition of Kant and Nietzsche, but particularly of Kierkegaard, she argues that women can discover and actuate the divine live within themselves and evaluate their own vocations as having equal importance with any external demands. Distributed in the US by Coronet Books. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)